Ernest Granger was a French politician, a veteran of the Paris Commune of 1871, a Blanquist socialist and subsequently a Boulangist nationalist.
12 Facts About Ernest Granger
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Ernest Henri Granger was born in Mortagne, into a lower-middle-class family of peasant stock.
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Ernest Granger was educated at the Lycee in Versailles and studied law before breaking off his studies to devote himself to political activism.
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Together with Gustave Tridon, Emile Eudes and others, Granger plotted the overthrow of the Second French Empire.
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Ernest Granger, who had avoided arrest after the August uprising, participated in the last demonstration against Napoleon III on September 1 and in the invasion of the Legislative Assembly on September 4,1870.
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Ernest Granger commanded the 159th battalion of the National Guard and attempted to rally the French to resist the German army at all costs.
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Ernest Granger participated in the Paris Commune as one of the representatives of the Blanquist faction.
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Ernest Granger was given the task of finding and liberating Blanqui, but before he could complete the mission, the Paris Commune was suppressed.
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Ernest Granger escaped England, remaining in exile in London until an amnesty enabled him to return to France.
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In 1889 Ernest Granger's committee entered into an electoral alliance with the Boulangists.
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Ernest Granger served one term; in 1893 he did not stand for re-election.
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Ernest Granger did not live to witness the event which led to an eruption of nationalism in France and across Europe, torpedoing the official internationalism and anti-militarism of the Second International and dividing the mainstream socialist movement: the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914.